Book Details:
Title: The Heart Knows the Way
Author: Christy Distler
Publisher: Avodah Books
Pages: 358
Release Date: February 1, 2021
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Book Description:
Sometimes home isn't a place, but a people.
As children, Janna Carpenter and Luke Martin lived on opposite sides of Division Highway, and that wasn’t the only division in their lives. While he grew up in the gmay—Lancaster County’s Old Order Mennonite community—she was the daughter of a single mother who left her in the care of Luke’s grandmother. For six years Janna found love with the Martins, until her mother abruptly moved them away.
Now, almost fourteen years later, Janna returns to the area with her daughter. Her hope for a new beginning is lost when they find their home uninhabitable after a storm, then an out-of-gas car leaves them stranded. When two women stop to help, they turn out to be Luke’s aunts, and the Martin family again takes her in.
Janna and Luke, a widower struggling to balance business and family responsibilities, reacquaint as Janna assists his grandmother and cares for his son. Her self-protective independence and his conservative principles put them at odds, but the difficulties they face draw them closer.
When long-lost friendship rekindles into unexpected love, will either be willing to make changes so they can be together?
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For as long as she can remember, Christy Distler has dreamed her most vivid dreams with her eyes wide open. Names became people—people who didn’t exist in this time and place but couldn’t have been more real in her heart and mind. So she did the only rational thing: gave them a voice by writing fiction.
Christy’s novels, whether historical or contemporary, delve into betrayal and reconciliation, faith and grace, and always involve the intertwining of cultures. When not writing, she works as an editor for publishing houses and independent authors.
Obsession with words aside, she's also a wife and the mom of kids and dogs. She considers dark chocolate a food group (level on the pyramid all depends on the day). She loves to laugh. And she's thankful. When not reading, writing, editing, or involved with family and church activities, she can be found trolling yard sales and thrift stores. She lives in the same Pennsylvania town where she grew up.
My Thoughts: Wonderful and Inspiring
This was such a wonderful and inspiring story! I was hooked from the very beginning and could not put it down until I finished reading the entire book. I felt a deep connection to the characters, to the point that I could feel every emotion, struggle, and everything that they were feeling and going through as if I were in the story. It's a story of faith, friendship, redemption, forgiveness, and love. But more importantly, it is also about drawing nearer to God and seeking and following His will instead of following what others think. It's an absolutely amazing story, and I highly recommend it!
Thank you for this lovely review, Dali! I'm so happy that you enjoyed the book!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the feedback, Christy! It means so much to me. I hope the review did the book justice. It was such a beautiful story.
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